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Slt And yet I k1 wre Some other shore, as fiut,-5 hy'waves uave-kissshd and left it dry and lone. right sunshine, gleamuing on my cottage i wall, .TrniIng the sthadows of ap Ivy spray, o\v tenderly. tliy golden touches ltall it On common things to-day; 'et,. beteath ythor alsies, ."8 S ne laeWl bei,bhtel lies,. gsel-ted by tly lo old'annd grity. lithe bird, loud-warbling underneath the eaves . 'An eager love-song'passionitto and shrill, ly heart is treinbling a(nid smniumer leaves With sweet, responsive thrill; Yet (hr away, dear guest, ti There is an emnyty ist Yhieh thou liist. llt torsaken, void and d still. n rair sen bright sinislilne, birds of song a] ivine, - I.too may lose the tide, the light, the lay; l Ot hers may win the kisses - that were mine, My night inay be their day; Yet, though the soul may sigh 'f For precious things gone by, ti I shall have had my rapture; comne what N mayi ci LITTLIE ROSABLEL. 11 "Of. course theV.y don1't want m1e," Sr said IlRosabel Raymond sadly. "No- rE body seems to want me. No home . a seen s to be open to -me anywhere. d When papa died he told me that Uncle e 'Dallas would be kind to me, and take c his vacant place. And he is kind, .after his odd, abrupt fashion. But mriy p Aunt Alicia don't care for me, and the fc girls look coldly on my shabby dress d and pale face. Evidently I am not a hi cousin to be proud of. If I were an b1 heiress things would be different.'' Poor little Rosabel ! The world fl looked very dark to her as she sat on y the window sill of the third-story back gi room in the Dallas mansion, which had t] been unanimously voted "good enough for Rosabel Raymond," -and watched bi the dull reds and grays of the Winter ' sunset fading out. behind the crowded spires of the city. "Oh, Rosabel, are you here?" It was her cousin Medora's soft, sweet vdice. She disliked Medora b more than either Augusta or Bell altitough she could not tell why. "We were thinking, mamma and I," saidL Medora, "that you must be terri- . bly dull without anything to do, all tc these dismal days." "It is rather lonesome," sighed a tosabel, -wondering at her cousin's b unusual thoughtfulness. "And so,'' added Medora, with the as sweet mis fover desigiiiig roms-you always a were an artist, you know, dear-I ex- b, claimed in that silly, impulsive way of C mine; 'The very idea for Rosabol." And," added Medora, "Miss Armitage y says you can obtain excellent board for sl four dollars a week with a widow near the rooms, and that would 'save you a great deal of time and no end of' fares. 1 8o, if you conclude to accept the posi tion, perhaps you had better come down n imto the drawing-room and see Miss b Armstage." If there was anything which Rosabel I Raymond loved, it was her pencil. T Itero, at last, was the mnuch-longed-for a1 opportunity, and she arose with alacrity and followed Medora Dlthlas down1 the ]1 sthirs. Mrs. Dallas and the Misses Dallas t, were openly exultant when lRosabel Raymond was gone. . di "'So (dispiriting to have her round all c the time, with her swollen eyelids andI h pale f ace," said Miss Augusta. * "But wvhat are we to say If Mr. Bal- n lard asks after her?" blurted out Bell, Sthe most honest and least prolitic of the family. "Say? Why, the truth," dleclaredI I Medora,-"that she has left us." For the secret of Miss Medora Dal- w~ las' anxiety to get rid of her pale lit,tle cousin, whose mourning was so dhis.. 10 tressmngly becouiniig to her, was the i) fact of Mr. Ilugh Ballard's adlmiration t< of the white, statuesque face, the deep " larkspur-bluo eyes, and1( the features he whiuch were as p)erfect as any cameo. L Miss~ Medora had mnarkedl Mr. Ballard iorn ' 'myn prey, andl declared war " U II unifortunate pretenider whlo he in her way. Vv I irst evening that Mr. Bal- a lai ,.. he inqiuired for Miss Ray miiond. Aledrnora droppedl her long pl .lashes. "Rosabel had a- cold, reserved na ture," she sid(. "She never~ seemd to become fond of atny of us, and she has gone away." t *"Gone where?" Mr. Ballard was pler- LI sistent enough to ask. "SIhe said she would write and send I1 usB thme address," said Medlora, drawing flI on her irmaginationi; "but she never o1 did. It quite went to dear mamma's l heart. Mamma regardled Rosabel as a . fourth daughter. But Rosabel neVer 01 w ~as inclined to reciprocate our alfee- L< Lion." fa *Mr. Ballard glanced at Medora with i0 an expressioni which she could niot ini terplret, but.it meant simp)ly: "If this girl is lying, she is doing It very artistically. Appearances are tl certainly against Rlosabel Raymnondh; h but it would take muore than the testi- ti mnony of one- womanl to make'mRie be- jp lieve her either cold or unigrateful." These reflections p)assed through Ils mind ats lie was politely accep)tinlg Miss Dallas' invitation to accompany.her to tj Mrs. Whitworth Walkinghalm's muilsi- h cal tea, the next day.' *"It will be a bore," he said to him- al self; "but Mrs. Whitworth Walkirghaim a is a genius, and there Is sure to be goodI s muilsic there." -a "There was goodl music there, and iso delicious "Orange Pekoe" In the a inlest of cups,' (eachl painted wvitht a it . parate wild( Ilowver ol'hbunch of grasses; it ake, ices and wvhiite grapes following ti lie barcarolas. and rondollettas-~.and g 11 went merry as a ,marriage bell, d itil,'in turhhig to place a chafr nearpd s1 o wind6w for Miss flallas, Mr. Bal- .1 rd' 8 nnfQrtunate elbow knocked 0110 4 t 'the priceless pups off the carved ief of tie:Jap se'c blnt and brole Into'th,ee'nie'es. "Mi*. Whitwoith Walkingham!will einmit suicide," cried Medora, clasp sg 1 er, r orr +iY eryu.to. 'eternal, seec id Mr, Ballard, laughing as he wrap :d the precious.pieces up In his pocket ndkerchief and- deposited them safely his pocket. "If there is a store in eew York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City, hero this precious toy can be matcied, shall not be left unsearched." "You can't match, it," said Medora aias: And she pioved td be right. In his despair, Hugh Ballard went to d Mrs. Megarreau, who was exactly ke everybody's fair ' grandmother. "What am I to do t" said he, blankly. f1)o?" said Mrs. Megarreau, nodding sc diamond butterflies on hr cap. "Why, go to the china.painting and 3corating rooms, of course, in 1Iam iersly Square. Take your sample, id they'll duplicate it for you in venty-four hours. Say that Mrs. [egarreau sent you." Mr. Ballard devoutly thanked the d lady, and obeyed without loss of me. Mrs. Baker, the superintendent, ho sat at her desk took the pieces of [rs. Whitworth Walkinghamu's doomed ip and looked earnestly at them with 3r head to one side. "We have that shape in our wares," Lid she; "and I am quite sure we can produce the design-blue iris-buds id marsh grasses. Miss Rayiond's signs are, some of them, even more cqiisite than this. Rosabel, my dear, nne here." And Rosabel Iaymond, pale and .etty as ever, came unconsciously irward in her brown linen painting ress, with a bow of .black ribbon at 3r throat, and her lovely chestnut :own hair pushed back from her face. rs. Baker was holding out the bits of actured china, whereupon were tinted the blue iris-buds and drooping :asses, but Rosabel never looked at iem. "Mr. Ballard," she cried, her face :ightening with a delight. which she as too unsophisticated to suppress, What brought you td this place." "Miss Raymond," he exclaimed, what are you doing here?" "Earning my own living," said Rosa 31with quiet dignity. *'Does Miss Dallis-Medora, I mean -know where you are?" "She ought to know," said Rosabel, for it was she who recommended me come here. For the Dallases, I iink were getting tired of me," she Ided, with a sigh. "But I ought to very much obliged to her, for I have squired a most welcome independence, id the work here is exceedingly con muial to my tastes. Is Qiat the pat Irn you ,vish copied Mrs.:= aker?" she sked, taking a piece of china. "Oh, what- an excellent group of udsl yet I am bold enough to think I mi imitate it successfully." "If you can replace that cup," said [r. Ballard, dramatically, "I am your ave for life." "I think I can promise to replace it ithout any such condition," said osabel laughing. And irs. Whitworth Walkingham 3ver knew that her iris-ud cup was :oken until Hugh Ballard brought ick its exact counterp)art. IIe came no more to Mrs. Dallas' uesday morning receptions and Friday ternoon teas. Miss Medora vainly ondered why. But one day she met i on Fifth avenue, and prettily re roached him with his recent absen "I have been fortunate enough to scover the abiding p)lace of your usin, Miss Rosabel Raymond,' saidl gravely. Medora looked up, with a (leep color ounting to her~ cheek. "'Jndeed?'' said she. Itwas very kind of you to secure ir her such a congenial p)osition as iat," lie added. "'Medora Dallas hung her head, and1 as silent. "But she wvill not remain there ug,'' lhe continued(, cheerfully. "I ni happy to tell you that I am enigagedl her. We are to be married in a fewv eeks. Of course you will ireceivo 'at >ine' cards when we are finally set Medora murmu tred somnethinug about congratulationis" arnd "(elighted to sar of it." But Mr. Ballard smiled to himself hen1 she piassed on. "Lai belle cousine is not exactly eased," lie said to himself. .The sunnfower. The sun flower (1008 inot turn with to suni, but a recent observer~ finds tat a miajority of thme flowers (10 have prevailing dIirection wh'len open ig. 1 the caIse of 0110 of the perennial suni >wer~s of sixty-eight flowers up) to 10 time all had their heads mnclined to te southeast. Three (lays after this, ith sey,enty--three ilowers open, twenity ie amohg the bIdebr ones had advanced >wardi the northeast, their hioriz.ontal Lces becomIng nearly erect during the uriney. An Accutrate Timeo-pneen. * * * .While on the subject of Wal iam watches, we may mention That we ave seen a letter from the Commander of 1o .Nordon Caetle (Castle line of Steam ackets), wfmo was fortunate enough to wve life at sea, and who for hils gallant induct was presented in September last iti a Gold Keyless Waltham Watch by 10 President of the United States, on be alf of the London Local Marine Board. eferring to this Presentation Watch, he iys: "When I left London the watch 'as sir seconds fast, and on my arrival at ugapore It was only three seconds slow, most extraordinary performance for a atch, as I c arried it on mimy person the hele time. I compared it every day with Ly' chronometers on the passage out, -and seldtom or ever dIffered one second, from kein; in fact, I found it almost, if not as iod as my cihronometers, which Is a good ial to say for a, watch catried about and ibjeot to;ali lsin'ds of' jolts. "-London, hngland,, Thfe Watchmaker, Jeweter nd4 Bui~emmu1A. .F. 5, 1888. (Araudma'e HnIting-workd The noisy old mill doesn't m e them so warm, after all. Does iver the breathless snappilng maclie stop to te'ch a bright-eyed urchi to knit a tltrow on pir of chicken quilts'? * -. 'hanils, how softly they )atted the cheeks of tho romping gr a dchild, not half so soft in their childish curves as the touch of grand t\a's hands. Tihe stockings grandma knit- how much love went into every stitcll; how many prayers-were wrought into every round. Somewhere 1 once read about a umIi who bent' over her needle work, and as oft as a tear fell from her eyes upon the snowy fabric she wrought about it and worked it in with her (left needle until at last the strange design wrought out a touching story of her loneliness and sorrow. And if we could read all the dreams and thoughts amid prayers that grand ma wrought with those patient needles we would wear the stockings she knit next to our heart rather than on our feet. For here is a dream of John, and there is a tear for Chris' Robbie, and here is a Plan for Will, and hero comes creeping in a quiverimg strain from some old, old hymn that is hallowed to us not because her lips blessed it so often; see now a prayer quivered all along this round; h(re the stocking was laid down while the old hands turned over the leaves of the Bible that seemed never to be out of her lap; here the old eyes looked out across the pasture and the mowing lot down to the wvooded hills where the birds are answering winds; here the old eyes slept for a few minutes, and here is a knot. A, yes, Philie and Annie are home this week and the house is full of their children. I There will be many more knots -1 the yarn before the stocking is finished. Who is the boy whose fate it is to hold on his extended hands the skein of yarn while gral(lla winds it off after the romping youngsters who taunt him with shrieks of laughter as they desert him. I But never mind, grandma confronts him with splendid stories of Uncle Doec's pranks when lie was a boy and went to school at Carmichaeltown, j until the boy wishes the skein was live 1 miles long. And then lie is rewarded by a great big cooky, sweeter than I honey, because he was such a good boy. The only thing that took the 1 edge off this reward was that all the other children got just as big cookies as lie did, because somehow grandma's < rewards fol the good boy and girl managed to include all the other boys I and girls. To guindina, all children I were good; some children were better than others, but there were no bad -children. A throusand blessings, a I thousand times told, on the dear ol 1 face and the silver hair that crowned < the placid brow; on the wrinkled hands I and the work they wrought; on the dear I lips and blessed old hymns they sung; i on the dear old book that lay in her lap, and the life that drew so much of love and faith and help from its pages. The "'Ex,ert" Business. An elderly gentleman with bushy white hair and whiskers, rathe~ square and rassive features and a firmly knit form of medium height, clad in an exceeding ly plain and old-fashioned suit of clothes, welcomed'a reporter in Cleveland the other evening. "Is this Professor Piper?" asked the reporter. "Please call me Mr. Piper, plain Mr. Piper," was the modest request. Piper is an eminent microscopist, and expert, summoied to examine the signa tures of a deed conveying certain Pros pect street real estate from Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Osborne to C. A. Adlams. Mrs. Osborne claims that her signature to thme1 dled wvas written at home without pro per acknowledgement by the notary1 whose signature andl that of her hxusband was .written down'm town after hers had been affixed. And upon01 this ground she seeks to set aside thme (ded. Adams, of course, objects to thme setting asidleo the deed(, since lie has advanced Osborne mloney~ on tile strength of it, clais that thme inistrumencit was signled in legal form. Piper >rough t his inisroscope to bear on the signatures and( declaredl that it was an indisp)utable fact that Mrs. Os borne's signiature was not written before that of the other signers, as she positive 1ly states, but afterward. Th le 1001) of thme y in Mrs. Osborne's Christian name of Mary crosses thme 11. of her husbandl's signature, and a powerful glass shiowedl conclusively. Piper claims, that thme liles of the y were written over the HI. Numerous drawings of thme let ters mang nifiled many dliamneters appearedl on P'i per's table, together with penicils, brushes1 and finely-graded rules for mneasurinig the smallest fraction of an inch. Piper. by aln ingenious device, thirewv the sha dows of the signature, magnified many diameters, oni a sheet of bristol board and then drew themn as they appeared. iIe has just returned1 from Phihadel phia, where lie was employed over one hundred days oni one case. That which calhed1 Piper in to p)roiminence more than1 anything else was his connxection with the Cadet Whiltaker case. It will be remembered that it was claimed that4 Whitakor hiimself wrote the note of warning found in his room. Piper en-1 larged I he hafndlwriting amid declared that it wa.cs not Whiltaker's. Subsequent confessions provedl that lie was correct.1 "I am a fIrm belever," said the export, "in Whitaker's innocence." One of the curiosities of Piper's col lection is his wond(erfuil laboratory of Inks, containing samples of almost every variety of Ink miade. lIe has a book filled with ink tests. A long strip of paper is painted with a certain variety of ink anid then the strip is marked off into squares. In each square a drop of a certain chemical is placed. Oxalic acidl for instance takes out all the color of thie bright-hued aniline Inks, but has little effect oin A rnold's Ink or Stephlens'. Chloride of lime and potash wvater have a marked effect On een Arnold's iinks. India Ink nothing appears to effect. At stated Intervals I'Pir writes specimenis of certain kinds of Ink with a date affixed and lays them, awvay to show what effect thme action of time has o~n them. In one case oin which lie was synployed a linatter 'of $250O.000O hinged on his dlecision. A patty s wore th 1a ertain certificates of, stock were six rears old. It was shown that it was vritten with a certain variety of ink, ind Piper obtained a specinen of writ ng over six years old done with the ame kind of ink, Which had turned rown, whereas the signatures on the ertiicates looked bright and fresh. Blood has proven as -great a field of nvestigatiou for the expert as ink. It was claimed, for instance, by a party trrested out West for murder, that the )lood on his garments was from a pig rhich he had carried oi his shoulder. :n hman blood the minute corpuscles ire about 32.1000 of an inch in diameter, yhile those of a pig, as a rule, are but ibout 1-4000 in diameter. It was con dlusively shown that the blood on the nan's ;garment ,had litrger corpuscles lin pig's blood Was ever known to have, and, the fact being est bllshed - that- it vas not pig's blood bi nw hmn- blood n the garments, went 'a. long way to vard convicting the dtefendant. In order to obtain samples of blood ron various animals for investigation mudor tho~ glass Piper once bled the vhole of Forepaugh's menagerie save lie monkeys. When the animals ad 'anced to the bars of their cage the loctor struck each on the nose with a pring lance. making a minute little rash from which a drop or two of blood vas obtained. It is needless to say that ?iper didn't loaf around the lions' or igers' cages long after he had stuck his ausiness into their noses, as it were. itranige to remark that while samples if the savage lions' and big boa con trictor's blood could be obtained, the ;eepers did not dare allow the monkeys o be bled. It has been learned by ex erience that such undue familiarity vith a monkey as lancing it makes it usane and worthless. Tie blood of the lephant and the whale is a little larger o to speak, than that of a human being. t camel's blood differs from the claret ound in human veins in that the cor iuscles are oval instead of round. Taking 'ra with the Japanese. The great pecularity of this tea-drink ng ceremony consists in the exactness vith which everything is done. A pon, cup, or whatever is handlled, has o be taken hold of in a particular way, et down in a pecular place and tonched n a particular part, and everything is lone with the same strange precision. What I saw was part of the ceremony )f 'thin tea-drinking ' and part of the eremony of 'thick tea-drinking,' but. he whole is simply a lesson in those aws of politeness which were formerly o rigidly exacted in every mansion and vhich are still largely kept up, in the louses of the old aristocracy. ()rigi tally, the ceremony was of a secret haracter, and no seoVant entered the ionse in which it- to" place-the mas er kindling the.fie, i.ng the water, naking the te ,aM 'Inslort doing werything for tht gueyts ; but in later years it has become a mere ceremony f an extremely fashioiiable character. )ie or two things in this service struck ne as especially strange. Thus, both lost and guests knelt from the time hey entered the building till the time bhey left it; and even when the master ad to go to the lttle back room to .etch water, cups or whatever else he night require, he shuflied on his knees to the slide which served as a door, and, hen, having opened it, shuffled through the opening till he was well on the other ;ide, when lie rose to his feet; but this he must not do while in the presence of lis guests. The chief guest. moreover, s the spokesinain for the conpany, and Lo word is uttered save by the chief uest or the host durilng the service, be t ever so long. The chuief guest also lends111 everything-thus he asks for ~ea and( refreshments, but the p)articular noment at which each request has to be madle is arranged by the codle of eti luietteC. At oppoirtunte moments the shief guest also asks if lie may h(itk at thue tea caddy, a spoon1, a howl or the tea-pot. -Receiving the necessary Pem nusssion, he shuilles on his kniees to the plaice where tihe olbject demanded is, akes it, bows his forehead to the ground, hen rising, touches his forehead with he object received, and begins to ex uiniine it. Looking at the tea-pot he tsks if it is silver; then wh'lo madle it; thien opening it and smelling thme tea, wvhat tea costs p)er plounid; after which nquiries he passes it to the next guest~, ind makes a remark to thme host which shouild, if plossible, lhe at the same time i comipliment and a pun. After each >f time guests has duy13 inispected thme ob ect, the thief guest shiuflies again ucross thme floor, and returns it to its >lace. Object after object is brought, )xainediiO( and1 retuirnmed ini the sameli ameir. A Cont i.Vaugl Ilook. At an auction sale iii New York re seuntly, among thme books sold1 thme one areatinig the most spirited bidding was mn ahlmanac for the year 1686, entitled 'Kalendarium P'ennisilvaniense;' or, Smerica's Messenger." Thmis book :ontains twenty leaves, not paged amid mncut, and this and another formerly >ossessed by G4eorgo Brinley. of IIlart.. ord, an the. eonly ones known to be in ;xistence. It is especially valuable 'rom tIme fact that it is the first work of he first p)rinter of Philadelphia and Stew York, W. Brmadford of the former ~ity wvho, in anm address prited ini the >Ook, says: "1 lereby understand that ifteor great charge and trouble I have rought thme great art and mystery of )rinting into this part of America, be ioving it may he of groat service to y'ou it several respects." IL was sold1 to MIr. Stone for $520. 'rTe other books lisposed of include jun almanac for 1705, mother for 1093, wvhicho respectively )roumght $11. and $7; "Anecdotes of Distinguished Personis ," $8; " T1he Amnerican Neptune ," in three volumes ritedl in 1781 for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, under the direCc Aon. of the Ri. Hf Lords Commnis dioners of the Admiralty, brought $90; he. Holy Bible, with geneatogies prefix ~d, prited ini 1018 by Robert Barker, )f London, hound in tiik boarde, with netal corners and centre; was purchased ~or $20 50. A copy of the original ~harter of Rhode Island College, now Birown's University, presented at the 3eneral Assembly i'n February, 1715, )ranu mn $2 4 St. Petersburg in Wlimter. People in America might possibl3 imagine that tea-making in this coultrl is a very complicated and laborioui affair, but it is no more so than any where else, only people here are s< easy-going and good-natured; time ha: so little value, and labor is so cheap even though it may be poor, that about half a dozen people are doilg her< what one person would do with muel more thoroughness in America becaust not stumbling over other people's feet One of the servants in question wa: washing about half a dozen spoons saucers and glasses. Mon in Russhi drink their tea out of glasses, so the3 can admire the amber liquid and at th same time feel its warmth creepinfi through their bodies as they hold th< glasses between their fingers. The second man brought the tea-caniste and sugar-bowl, and being imp)ressec with the importance and dignity of hi: work he moved about with a slownes that was edifying to behold and gene rated in the spectator a violent desirt to go to his assistance, The third mai was arranging sweet crackers and slic, ing lemons to be used with the tea, while the fourth man's attention wa. entirely absorbed by the samovar. The samovar, as weil as the steai bath, is a truly national institution, Take away from the Russian these twe objects of necessity and luxury, and ht will think life has been robbed of hall its charms. The samovar is an indis. pensable piece of furniture inl the house: of the rich and the poor, the high awl the low, and not till he is the happ3 owner of such an institution does a young man set about in search of a life partner, willing to share with him tht comforts offered by a room somuewiert under a staircase. The word "samiio. var" is composed of the pronoun ''self' or ''itself," and the verb "to boil," and liternily means "self-boiler.'' '1'he samo. var is made of brass, lhas the shape of an egg, and holds from one to two pailb of water. The lower end rests on fon feet, the upper is flattened, and it has i funnel for charcoal in the centre. Th top of the funnel is finished off by au object resembling a crown, and whel time water boils on your tea-table you fill your tea-pot, put it on the crown tb draw, and your tea is ready. The four men were attending to theii duty m religious silence, the only tinu they opened their mouths being to in, form me-that there was to lie i ext ru meeting on somie important business, and that it was on that acconit thel were making the tea. .Now the gentle. muen who compose those meetings cou together at 2, leisureiy sip their tea relate th latest news, and go home t their dinners at 4, leatvintg a kind P'rovi dence to attend to their affairs, unless, indeed, the question be one of politics "political unreliability," as they call it here. - Then these same jovial, easy going gentlemen will instantly he transformed into stern, ilillclint judges, working day and night, and tc the best of their abilities, in their en. deavor to please the head of the couin. try and thus earn stars and ribbions, oa a more exalted "chin" or rank. The present Emperor, in ordering . revision of the laws relhting to th Jews, has taken one step further o the road trodden by his father. Whei Alexander 11. freed the serfs he at tit saie tune tried to bettor the conlitiol of his lIebrew subjects. Previous t1 1861 no Jiew was allowed to remain ii a- tussian town longer than a week. except inl Poland and (the Sonth, whiel were overrui by them. in Pomlauu they were even 0 nuiimerolns and s< p)owerf1ml once t,hat a Polish King wiiu on thie hpoint of mlarryinug a ,Jewess Russians knmew only thme peddlinig Jew by no means thie best, r'epresentatlve o the race, as thie pe3rsecuitionis by3 li Chrmistiani brethrenm had( inade hin'i uni scriuulouis and cowardly and hiad ovem deCvelop,ed hiis n aturalI shrewdntess Even w~here they were t.olerate'd thecy dit not dare to betray any utward sign of thrift; (hey woul iot long have re mainied iiinniOlested5 if thecy hiad, so time: rinuainied ragged andl dirty, and to at out,ward ajppeiaanes iii abject, ploverta until they biecamne at by-word and (1 reproach, while ini reality they held thi purse strings of (lie counitry. Th'ie' carriedl on a pitiless and most unre ienitinmg usury, suckinmg the life-blood of their victnis like so nully leechie and( keep)ing (lie people, who lttterei thiemiselv'es thant they were their masters ini the most absolute and hmuiiiiatinij depenidenice. Andl thme two races hatet each other most, thmoroughlly. Onde i. af while (lie Christian slave rebelled an< miaugurat ed a love-feast, sinnli ar t those of the Vandals ai (lie Gioths but, his resistance only lasted until hi long accumiulatedl eniergy h111(1spenti its elf', when everything iwnt on as before Okeup Eatinig in Wahntn Th'le dairy oppiosite (lhe T1reasu ry us; great resort,, wh1ere may 1be seen not onil many bureau oflers and men of cot siderable position in (lie govermenit ser vice, but a great many others who d nmot wanit a cheap Ilunconi, buIt a ligh one, and~ knmow~ (iat if they 011ce seL.l into a restauiranit chair (lie result will b~ a spoil appletite by dinnuer (inue. See retary Chanidler is one of (lie frequen: visitors, and often may lie seen stand(1ini ini a crowd'( of Treasury clerks, drinking his mug of' milk and muniching his tw< cent biscuit--that is it is two, cents If hi takes a buttered biscuit aiid onily on,1 cent If it is ubuttered. It will be siee by a slight intellectmual effort (liat ti salary (of a Cabinet ollcer for 011e yea wo0uildl puchase 800,000 unbuttered his cults. Th'le Secretary's future may b) regardled, therefore, as reaisona! ~,se ciure. It thie Secretary (takes a mug (I milk and( (wo) unbuttered biscuits (h< total cost o,f his lunicheon is (lie umagnmifi cenit stun of seven cenit'i two butterc< biscuits will raise it to nlie cents, anadi lie should take a p)1ece of p)i--wVh'ich h probably . would mnot do-as lhe coni; from New England, where pie0-malkii is a religion and1( not a sordkll pursuit (lie cost will rcech four'teen cents. Tih; is regarded, however, as extravaugamic only to be justiflled in a Cabinet o111cer. -There are in the treasury $105 251 198 in ellvor and $179,08anOa in gold. Art at Hoeo. Purchase the Florence knitting silk It comes in all colors. The size of thi steel needles used will depend upon th Sfile or coarse quality of silk that shouk be selected. Stocking knitting i easily learned. The majority of oh ladies know all about this sort of in dustry, in a1 plain way, to be sure, since art decorating is of rather recent date 1and especially in the manufacture o fancy hosiery. However, the grandma of to-day are familiar with the rules fo: shaping a stocking, and when this is learned the artistic ombellishings arc easily controlled. In personal beautify ing, doubtless at prettily dressed foot j: quite as unuchl noticed as any other par of the toilet. And especially is thi: S the case during the suminer season when fashion's dlsciples are rusticathiu r im point lace and diaimonds at an ex I pensive watering place, where the ex travagance of dress is sometime I extended to the bathing suit, and heav3 silk stockings are worn to protect ti( satiny whiteness of shapely limbs Knitting silk stockings is a charniing ilustry, a work easily laid down o1 taken up, and when rustienting, thr knitting can be carried about ill tin dress, pocket, ready for use at any 11o mIent; when the occupation ilaly be re suined with'inarkedl effect in displaying valuable jewelry--the hands are held ul to view, ilocent, of course, of any in" tention of exciting envy, or seekcilI admiration for beauty of hinds 1nii cured nails, and costly gemis. '.l here i: somlethling Very fascinating inl I:anec knitting, and then there is a grelt satisfaction ill an industry so Iucrative A handsome pair of silk hose are wel woril throm $10 to S'au, the vatie de pending upon Ite ainount oft 1 fat1't work with which the hose mnay be lec onited. Doimest ic icnnae silk hall* hosc for gentleiIIen+ gives a pretty anud ex ceediligly satisf'actory occupation fo young girls anl inisses, who take pleas. are in giving their lite inereltives pres - enits that are handsome and usefutl, and are also such positive evidences of in dustry anId Itistit' taste. A. silk kilittei smlOking catp can he richl% designIed showing at rainbow of color ifeets Dressy little silk sncques I'or babies ari knitted or crocheted in colored cor< formning a very usef'u1 and ornamnental garmient. Emnbroidery has beeotne so fashliona. ble that it is lavishly enlpluyctd on sonme garinents. Now mnuch of thi Work is wrought, at honie, thereby say ing large sut11ns of ilolney, and stil indulging inl the preferred dress decora tion of the season. A p ocket handlkar chief emnbroidered by a young lady onl) "brought out'' this Willer just pas coutld not be b outght at, one of otr hiri'gi stores for a cenlt. less than $50. A littit schoolgirl of elevon Stullers has en11 broidered ill colors within four months tinio a laawi tenils 11111Ion a p)erfec poemn of dainty conceptionts ini the in termingling of blo:>sonls, )buds, an(1 climbing plants, all so ingeniously exe" cutted, and so exactly copied froni .iituire, they appear to be only laid or . ,the Illldkercluef, to be gathered lp alil put, into a vase of water. One. of tin rich lest pongee costuines that, will bi seen at Newport this Sumnier was ci roidered dturing this Sprinig by 11 wealthy society lady, noted for le charitable de;(ls to the wvorthy poor, wlho, however, does not, believe ini favor ing both inery and idleness. FIor Slimmer use in a country cottag( gray-ined curltais with edge elbroid 0ry are ornamnental aund atlfordt ' au' admnirablo shade to a roomn exposed 1i the heat of the noo iay stun. A doo cuIrtalini formled of. tarIltan in 11 anil breez2'/y cool11ess to tile rooins. I?d1gI tile culrtin with Linted 11ace and1 hanilg 1 1101lh1ind sh ade of correspond1IllI ig color to b,e drawnu tdown when secluisioni i recIjIired; loop11 balck the tletanl ne0a the cent.re with~ ribb'on bows. T1hier' is anoI(t1eli efct ive 8t,yle oIf (1oor 0111 talin which is (easily3 'onistruiceld. Purm chase15 ai few yards of dlotted Sw is: mu islill; betwleen the dot.s ton hot h1 sie ofI ilh goods 83w Liny13 sjlanIgles; edige th<i (3urtaLinil with 11arrow(11 gold 11n0(, and (1 faliry3-like effect is given, esplecillyi twoi 111 I 11ahn hlLs ori polts of. flIowersi' ar pIhiCed on1 eithe 11 ide8(1 of' then door11. - sho0wy piano1 cover' 111ay3 be secure'td a1 very'3 li ttle expense5. A.ppiiliu on gr'e( 01cloth, aI varlIiet,y of (juinilI figures, noe exactly' gr'otesqueI, but11 seeted witl tast1811, and11 hlresen,tinlg in a1 pointed'l nu111 11nCr 801n10 sorL oIf suggestion11 relatinlg t 1illulsic,. both v'ocal 11( m I 1tintrument l Oiriginal11ity) expressed50( iln desigi ll 1decoraltionIs for ai plianot cover0 is sure t ,execulted, 111u1 thiere mu lst al1so be-give] to) thle worik. TheIm designs wrouIgh, 01 111 organli c oer should halrlmI/onize'itl the general chalracte'ristics of thmis ini strumlient. TIher'ie sho(111( be no0 crowdei deOtils in need(11e wo'rk, e~ven when th - i1hed( pre'sentLs; amphIle breadth for det'oration11 of liberaul dlimen'Isions. .1 dr'der 1(o secure' a plea~smig effectL j ul thati dtliail is alwaysi3' subor1dinle t Lte desigil; and1( aib1vte all be siure not, t initenided to be colpies frtonmnaturet eivery' h ower. shotuld 1ha ve its ownV1 feOilng( andit the~ wihole made(( a18 per'fectt as poss ble. G larling inallccurac'ies1 ill Lis Idi iret t ion det.stroy the deQsiredt effec.t oIf mo.(1 ait the1 8same1 time1( it, is obiviouis that, th f'airm artist is ini possess5ion1 of cons1idora' r. bie igniorantce. S--Th'ere aIre .18 societies of Shuaker's I .tihe Uniitedl States. C -Thfie (lot now pIlacedl over the i (ailt 3 fromt the f ourteenmth century. -Armnorica, which1 Is nowv Brittanl) wats conquered by Caesar 50 B3. 0. * ---The fIrst recorded plhague i all pail , of thme world occurredl 767 1B. 0. ; -The celebrated mineral spring ii Ciheltenham was d iscoveredl in 1718. i --There are 1,500 sqniar'e miles of Ic , ini tile Alps, from 80 to ($00 feet thick. -It requires 10,290 gas aind 2,368 o6 lamps to light the streets~ of Boston. , -A single grape vmne at Cajon, Call fornia. Is aito nohar nie onsn of frenn NEWS IN BR1EP, -Sweet potatoes are being ,success fully raised In Mower county, Minne sota. --February and January were added to the calendar by Nuna alout 713 B. C. -Conchology was first ieduced to a system in 1075 by John Daniel, Mayor of Kiel. -The uractice of using a baldachin'in churches was introduced Into, ngland in 1279. -The French Government intends to hold a grand international exhibition at Paris in 1885. . -'The hyssop of Scripture is"the caper tree which abounds in southern Europe, lower Egypt and Syrb . -Chicago is said to waste 4b,000,00( - gallons of water per day, and Cincinnati 5,000 000. -i%-aris has 05,000 houses, London 400,000 more than Paris, New York and Berlin combined. -The shipmen's of petroleum and letroleun prod nets from this country for .lanuary were valued at $3,050,953. -By the new census there are in Ire land 3,951,887 Roman Catholics and 1,-1 1118,812 Protestants of all kinds. -The debt of the United States p or to tle war was aboIt $90,000,000, he debt of the Australian colonies s al- " ready livefAdW that.. -it is estimated that, the 700 uests at the Vauderhilt hall represent 1 $8, 000,000,000, or 10 times the total alua tion of Boston. ---.1mes 1. of "'5cotlanId was mu lred at t he Black Friars' monastery at irth, in 14:17, by ohert (Graham11111 and th Earl of Athol. -The revenine of the Dominion ov ernlmntlt for the tirst nine months of e - piesent fiscal year was $26 381,685, at - the 'xpenlditures $18,U02,1.9. --In Western China the mountain tOai, which has a " halo,'' and which is in height 11,000 feet, is almost exclusive i ly inhabited by Buddhist monks. -On the Colorado desert a species of tortoise grows to a weight of twenty live pounds, and the meat of this is coln silere(I a great delicacy among' the In I dials. .A Iman recently sold the timber righ t on a tract of lud in Cambria cout ty, Pennsyivania, for $45,000. IlIe imught the land and trees a few years ago l'or $1,000. -Pisistratus founded a public library in Athens 540 B3. (., and this is the first institution of its kind of which history gives any account. Ptolemy Philadel plhus founded the second 284 1t. C. -The cost of the Vanderbilt ball is est imated as follows: Costaunes, $155, 730; flowers, $11,000; carriages, $4,000; hair-dressig, 5-1,000; supper and extr-a servants, $25,000; making a total of near ly $200,000. -Ice men of the Penobscot river say that the present season has been a suc cessful one to them. They have har vested someh 189,500 tonis, and they had about 50,000 tons left over from last seasoni. -It is said that Stonehenge the ancient, montiment on Salisbury lain, was built inl accordance with Merlin's advice by Aurelius of Ambrosius, in memory of 400 Britons who were mur dered by Ilengist. -''he virtues of Peruvian bark were - discovered by a .Jesuit in 1535, and it was uscd by members of the Society of Jesus from that time. In 1(19 it was intro duiled into France, and Sir Iais Sloan carried it to Eniglanid in 1700. -- co01ni ct was eniteredl into at San Franceisco a few (lays ago by the Tiexas and P aci tIe lbilway Company for thie t.ransportat.ion of sevent hundred ear loads, being about :00,000 bushels, of California wheat logo to lEurope by way of New Orleans. --The liye copper mines in Michigan, wihhave declared dividenids during lhe past year, have a paid-up cap)ital of $2,500,000', and the dividends paid iinounit to $2,900,000. Th'Ie Calumnet and I [ceela, which hasa capital of $1,200, - (00, palid its stockhiohlers in the past year --The 'Western Union telegraph lines mi T1exas have inicreased fronm 2,300 iles of' les1C andl 4,000 miles of wire on Jan t 1, 1880, to 4, 300 miles of poles and near ly 9,000 miles of. wire oni Jan. 1, 1883, -thus nearly dloublinig its facilities within thiree year's andio still building. --One of (lhe Ind ustrIes of Australia is th le cooking and canning of rabbits, .wich are 50 lenttifuil in some dlistricts t (imt whole crops are sonmetimies destroy ed by them. Otne him dIurlig the [last a season1 which lasted t.wenty-fIve weeks, ( ant 7500o he anthuanls. l--In thie Secotnd revenue collection - istrict of GAeorgla from December 1st, I 1.882, to March 3lst, 1883, there were 3 seized 105 illicit distileries; dlestroyed, - 00; remnoved for forfeiture, 20. T1here L were 13, 150 gallons of beer destroyed~ 1i antd 17 gallons of low wines and 30s Sgallonis of whisky seized. , -T1he nilnug receipts at San Fran a cisco for to lIrat six mtonths of (te year LI amuomited to $10,260,000, of which $2, 3 091), 4121, was for (lhe month of June. Of - this sum the California sent $1,850 292; lCureka Cosldtd$1,502 0o;-00n-: moni,td, $1,200,000, and Ophir, $723,000. S -Th'Ie first annual report of -the Now .Joirsey railroad comm i issionters says there -are 1800 milIes of road in the state; capi tal investedl, $214,008,349; cost of road and e<iIets, $108,018,355; gross earnings in 1881, $31845,80'2; net earn hig, 11,000.1; ntret pktonbonds, oec., $9,590,338; gross earningq for 1881, a $20,000,000; not Income, after qeducting all expenses0, $15,000,000. -It Is wvell known that (lie wine lhar vest last. year. was scainty in Italy, but a compared to (hat of Ifranicel there la no reason to complain. 'In 'France scateeoly 3, 0,880,352 heetol4res were obtained, - while in Italy there wyore 32,;O-,448 lhce tilittes. '.The harvest i F Vnoe was Li loss by 8,252,88 1 hectolitres thn that ., obtained there in 1881 .whtle in Italy 'it I wasgreater by 5,028,70hectolitres, than the average .production, thbugh below the prodnetion of excepttonalli g . e ts, -